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Index
Cover
Dedication
Introduction
2250 BC-AD 150 BC • Exploration and Mapping of the Ancient World
833 • Islamic Geographers and the Search for Knowledge
986-1010 • The Vikings Discover America
1271-95 • The Travels of Marco Polo
1405-33 • The Extraordinary Voyages of Chinese Admiral Zheng He
1435-88 • The Portuguese Explore the African Tropics
1492-1504 • Christopher Columbus Crosses the Atlantic Ocean
1497-98 • John Cabot Journeys to North America
1497-99 • Vasco da Gama Reaches India
1500 • Pedro Cabral Cracks the Atlantic Code and Discovers Brazil
1513 • Juan Ponce de León Discovers Florida
1519-21 • The Circumnavigation of Ferdinand Magellan
1524 • Verrazzano Traces the East Coast of North America
1526-33 • Francisco Pizarro Conquers Peru
1577-80 • Sir Francis Drake Sails Around the World
1582-1610 • Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Missionaries in China
1594-1611 • Willem Barentsz, Henry Hudson and the Quest for an Arctic Passage
1595-1617 • Sir Walter Ralegh Searches for El Dorado
1606-29 • The Dutch East India Company and the European Discovery of Australia
1642-44 • Abel Tasman Finds New Zealand
1683-1711 • The Educated Pirate: The Adventures of William Dampier
1725-41 • Vitus Bering’s Expedition into the Great Frozen North
1766-69 • Bougainville’s Scientific Circumnavigation of the Globe
1768-78 • Captain Cook Maps the Pacific and Southern Oceans
1785-88 • The Vanishing of the La Pérouse Expedition
1791-95 • George Vancouver Reveals America’s Northwest Coast
1795-1806 • Mungo Park Explores North Africa
1799-1802 • Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland Explore South America
1803-06 • Lewis and Clark Hunt for a Route to the Pacific
1819-20 • William Edward Parry Penetrates the Arctic Archipelago
1839-43 • James Clark Ross and the Search for the Magnetic Poles
1845-47 • The Mysterious Disappearance of the Franklin Expedition
1846 • The Age of the Female Traveller Begins
1853-73 • David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley and the ‘Dark Continent’
1860-61 • Burke and Wills’s Doomed Crossing of Australia
1878-80 • Adolf Nordenskiöld Circumnavigates the Entire Eurasian Landmass
1893-1909 • The Race to the North Pole
1903-12 • Roald Amundsen Conquers the Northwest Passage – and the Race to the South Pole
1914-17 • Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition in the Endurance
Afterword
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Index
Acknowledgements
Credits
Copyright
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